Ideas Lab

It would be really nice to be able to output the model results in the order that they appear in the model.

Due to different survey datasets having different labels we have disparate node label systems that are difficult to order using parsing techniques. For example 01_nnnn labels are interspersed with AAAA_nnnn, so sorting just lumps the 01's together and the AAAA's together. Alternatively its a manual task.

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adamsk commented on behalf of the ISIS team: This can partially be overcome by using the "Tools->Sort Initial Conditions" option in the main UI. You'd have to ...

Could we have some automation to ordering the initial conditions in the data file. During model build and stabilisation, we often revisit units in the data file. This results in a re-ordering of the initial conditions in the data file. When post-processing results, the order at which these are in is vital, especially if the model is large and you are only interested in particular reaches. Thanks. TJ

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adamsk commented on behalf of the ISIS team: Agree. If it's a graphical view within ISIS, e.g. Time Series output, one can use the "Alphabetical Order" option in the ...

robh commented on behalf of the ISIS team: This is now being actively developed for a future release of ISIS. This will allow you to sort your initial conditions ...

» robh commented: This functionality is now available in 3.3.

» chasward commented: Functionality does not appear to work in 3.3.0.88 Can you advise?

Make it easy to extract the levels which are marked as left and right bank top (e.g. via TabularCSV)

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adamsk commented on behalf of the ISIS team: This is now part of TabularCSV in ISIS v3.3. In the "coordinate options" tab when using Coordinate Extraction, as well ...

Rather than saving bitmaps of model run graphs, how about using a more efficient modern format, such as jpg, tif, gif, png

I know server space is fairly cheap, but emailed bmps take too long to download.

and another thought - please could you save these by default for all model runs, so they are an opt-out feature, not opt-in?
thanks,
Ian.

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» nsteele commented: Bitmaps usually compress well(using e.g. winzip) if size is a problem. If they are to be included in a Word document, ...

» PHA commented: .png would be particularly well suited to the type of output on those graphs, and is lossless in quality.

Are you ...

adamsk commented on behalf of the ISIS team: Autosaving is now available in v3.3.
The bmp is the default option that comes 'for free' with the Intel Fortran ...

TUFLOW has recently released a double-precision version, which greatly stabilises (and increases the accuracy of) rainfall modelling. It would be great if this was able to be linked with ISIS river models, but unless ISIS is also working in double-precision the data transferred between the programs is clearly incompatible.
Pre-existing ISIS-TUFLOW models could then be used for pluvial modelling without the need to consider conversion to ESTRY or filling in the river up to peak levels. I think this is going to be an increasing area of work, so it would be good to have the capability in place now as the practice emerges.

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adamsk commented on behalf of the ISIS team: As of v3.3 of ISIS, it can link with TUFLOW DP. ISIS doesn't necessarily need to be DP itself - it just needs to convert ...

It would be useful to have the comment for each unit displayed on the right hand side of each unit in the list as I seem to have rather a lot of space there

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» PHA commented: So, another cloumn available to choose to view? Sounds like a good idea to me.

» Fiona commented: Would it be possible to allow longer comments too? Although in this case it might be difficult to display them along ...

robh commented on behalf of the ISIS team: This has been implemented for a future release.

» robh commented: This has now been implemented in version 3.3.

I often find it difficult with large geo-referenced models to located nodes in the GXY visualiser. It would be great to have a simple "zoom to selection" button where the visualiser will zoom and centre on nodes selected in the network.

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» hinxmana commented: This would be really useful

robh commented on behalf of the ISIS team: This has now been developed for a future version of ISIS. The functionality will mean single selected nodes will be ...

» robh commented: This has now been implemented in version 3.3.

Judging from the amount of people who have discovered the formatting error in the Culvert Inlet input values table in the Help file within one day or so of release, I realise many people must regularly refer to this table for the input values.
How useful would it be to have a "Culvert Inlet wizard" that takes you through the culvert types and enters the values for you? Should minimise transcription errors and make input easier.
konrad

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» hfielding commented: This is an excellent idea.

robh commented on behalf of the ISIS team: This is currently in development for a future release.

» robh commented: This has now been implemented in version 3.3.

I've just noticed that some of the curious zeros in brackets at the end of the headings for ideas viewed in the main ideas lab are infact now ones!
And clicking on the heading reveals that this means someone has commented upon the idea.

Some of these comments are really quite halpful to see, being responces from the ISIS team for the most part. One such comment is in responce to the multiple language support idea, for example, and is asking which languages people would like to see. A worthwhile question that it would be good to have responces to!

It would seem to me then, that'd it'd be helpful if these comments were a little more visable in some form. Alternatively, (or perhaps additionally) it would be usefull if at least the ISIS development teams responces were visible on the main page; allowing better access to both the follow-up questions they may have and their ideas for implementation.

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rob commented on behalf of the ISIS team: We've just updated the ideas lab with some new functionality which should make it a lot better. We've changed the way ...

» PHA commented: Much better, thank you! Looking good...

As far as I can see (maybe I'm just being inobservant though) you can only see the 20 most recent suggestions, or the 20 most poular. I know there are more idea than that, but I can't see how to get to them! This may lead to duplicated ideas, as well as later users not getting to opportunity to vote on earlier ideas.

Is this just me?

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Richard_Measures commented on behalf of the ISIS team: This has been implemented as part of recent improvements to the isisuser.com website. The website now displays an ...